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Sister citizen shame, stereotypes, and Black women in America

Jezebel's sexual lasciviousness, Mammy's devotion, and Sapphire's outspoken anger -- these are among the most persistent stereotypes that black women encounter in contemporary American life. Hurtful and dishonest, such representations force African American women to navigate a virtual crooked room t...

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Main Author: Harris-Perry, Melissa V. (Melissa Victoria), 1973-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.
Subjects:
African American women > Politics and government.
African American women > Political activity.
African American women > Psychology > Political aspects.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) > United States.
African American women > Social conditions.
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Table of Contents:
  • "The hurricane," from Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston
  • "The Bridge poem" / Kate Rushin
  • Crooked room
  • Myth
  • "Resisting the shame of Shug Avery," from The color purple / Alice Walker
  • Shame
  • Disaster
  • "No mirrors in my Nana's house" / Sweet Honey in the Rock, lyrics by Ysaye Maria Barnwell
  • Strength
  • God
  • "Praise song for the day" / Elizabeth Alexander
  • Michelle.

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